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20 Years Ago: First Image of Earth from Mars and Other Postcards of Home

20 Years Ago: First Image of Earth from Mars and Other ...

SIN Mar 8, 2024 0 3

On March 8, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the first image of Eart...

The Amazing Aerial Adventures of the 'Flying Feminist' Lillian Bland

The Amazing Aerial Adventures of the 'Flying Feminist' ...

SIN Mar 8, 2024 0 27

In 1910 an Anglo-Irish woman named Lilian Bland built a plane with little to no ...

Scientists Thought Only Humans Learn Complex Behaviors from Others. They Were Wrong

Scientists Thought Only Humans Learn Complex Behaviors ...

SIN Mar 8, 2024 0 14

New studies in bees and chimps challenge the long-held assumption that only huma...

Worm-like amphibian produces a kind of milk for its hatchlings

Worm-like amphibian produces a kind of milk for its hat...

SIN Mar 8, 2024 0 1

After hatching from eggs, young ringed caecilians feed on their mother’s skin, b...

NASA Helps Emerging Space Companies ‘Take the Heat’

NASA Helps Emerging Space Companies ‘Take the Heat’

SIN Mar 8, 2024 0 2

Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups sta...

Apollo 9 Astronaut David Scott’s Spacewalk

Apollo 9 Astronaut David Scott’s Spacewalk

SIN Mar 8, 2024 0 1

Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot for the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mi...

Help Raise Awareness About Eclipse Safety: #ShowUsYourSpecs

Help Raise Awareness About Eclipse Safety: #ShowUsYourS...

SIN Mar 8, 2024 0 3

   NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is encouraging the public to prepa...

D-Wave says its quantum computers can solve otherwise impossible tasks

D-Wave says its quantum computers can solve otherwise i...

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 4

Quantum computing firm D-Wave says its machines are the first to achieve "comput...

NASA’s Network of Small Moon-Bound Rovers Is Ready to Roll

NASA’s Network of Small Moon-Bound Rovers Is Ready to Roll

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 1

Construction and testing are complete on the CADRE rovers, which will map the lu...

Students Become FjordPhyto Volunteers and Discover that Antarctica Is Much Colder Than Texas

Students Become FjordPhyto Volunteers and Discover that...

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 2

Texas A&M sent 31 students to the Antarctic this year—and they did some vital NA...

Experimental weight loss pill seems to be more potent than Ozempic

Experimental weight loss pill seems to be more potent t...

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 3

The results, of 13 per cent weight loss after three months, need to be confirmed...

Salmon farms are increasingly being hit by mass die-offs

Salmon farms are increasingly being hit by mass die-offs

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 2

Mass mortality events at salmon farms have been getting more frequent since 2011...

How Starvation Causes Lasting Damage to the Body

How Starvation Causes Lasting Damage to the Body

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 2

Large numbers of people in Gaza are experiencing malnutrition. Studies show fami...

We Need Small Astronomy as Much as Big Astronomy

We Need Small Astronomy as Much as Big Astronomy

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 28

In an era of budget-busting mega-telescopes, we shouldn’t forget the importance ...

JWST Will Finally Hunt for Alien Moons—And Much More

JWST Will Finally Hunt for Alien Moons—And Much More

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 2

The next year of science for the James Webb Space Telescope has been selected. I...

Jupiter’s stormy surface replicated in lab

Jupiter’s stormy surface replicated in lab

SIN Mar 7, 2024 0 3

By rotating a tank of water at 75 revolutions per minute, it’s possible to repli...

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